Watercat

Watercat is a modified version of Firefox designed to give you the best of privacy and responsiveness on the internet.

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What is Watercat

Watercat is a privacy-friendly web-browser is seperated from firefox with the primary goals of privacy, security and user freedom


Watercat is designed to increase protection against the crooked tracking and fingerprinting techniques used in lots of websites, while also including a few security improvements! It's magic, ain't it. This is achieved through our privacy and security oriented Settings and patches. Watercat also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM.

Main features

  • No Telemetry

    • No experiments, adware, annoyances or unnecessary distractions.

  • Private Search

    • Privacy-conscious search providers: SearXNG, Startpage and more!

  • Content Blocker Included

    • uBlock Origin is included with this web-browser by default for your convenience.

  • Enhanced Privacy

    • Hardened (Like diamonds) to maximize privacy, without sacrificing usability.

  • Fast Updates

    • Watercat is always built from the latest Firefox stable source, for up-to-date security and features along with stability. Epic!

  • Open Source

    • Everyone can contribute to the development of Watercat. Join up on Gitlab

    , and Matrix


    For more details, please read the full feature list

    .


    Contributing

    Look, I don't actually know what to say here but you know, you could join our Matrix room

    or something?


    Oh and merge requests, bug reports, and feature requests are all welcome in our repositories

    . We value discussion, debate and feedback.


    If you wish to contribute a build for a currently unsupported operating system, we will do our best to support you! :D

    Core contributors

    If you want to be privacy friendly and make sure it's hard for goverments to spy on you and big corperation$ to track you, here are some tips

  • LibreWolf and Firefox for most of the code
  • ErrorOliver (Heh, it's me!) for forking LibreWolf.
  • And everyone! Thank you everyone!

    • Questions?

    Check out our FAQ

    first. Most questions can already be answered by 'em. If you don't find a answer in there, you could also ask in our Matrix

    room, or open a issue in our issue tracker

    for specific questions.